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Lonely
Planet China
A great book. We bought it
in
1999 and continue
to use it.
Highly Recommended
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Jiuhuashan
(Nine Flower Mountain)
Juihuashan
is one of the five famous mountains of China, but to western tourists it
is probably the least famous.
A small town, it sits at about 600 m below
a ridge.
Town and ridge are filled with Buddhist temples.
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Xi'an:
Places of Historical Interest
Chang'a,
or to give it its current name, Xian, is an ancient capital of China; actually
of the central region of what became China.
It was the start and terminus
of the silk road.
And long before that the site of a pre-historic village.
We first visited Xian in 1984.
In our October, 2000,
visit
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Xi'an
Xi'an is
well known for the terracotta warriors which are 30 km east.
Not so well
known are dozens of other temples and historic sites, some in town and
some rather far out.
Both of these
books were good supplements to LP |
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Yellow
Crane Tower
(Wuhan)
Starting
at
Wuhan
we made a five day
Yangtze
River cruise, going up river.
This is slower than sailing downstream,
but better.
The high point of Wuhan is the very beautiful temple, Yellow
Crane Tower.
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Unforgettable
Three Gorges
Halfway
through the boat ride one comes to the site and construction work of the
Three Gorges Dam a
nd
shortly thereafter to the Gorges themselves.
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Dazu
Stone Buddhist Scultures
Buddhism came to China from the west, along the silk road.
All along the way from the Turkestan desert in the west of modern China to
Luoyang
there are caves and grottoes with Buddist sculptures.
When we decided to
go to
Dazu
we had no ideas that we would be so impressed.
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